----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kukat" <port-vax@vaxpower.de>
To: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
Cc: "NetBSD Bob" <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>; <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone know if NetBSD can key a radio transmitter

Hi,

Remind me of myself... I've made a cable from my printer port to the game
port of my Commodore 64. Couldn't find a joystick for it, so I made a small
program that reads the PC joystick and tosses the corrects pins high and low
:). I've also hooked a LCD display to my PC (for some reason, the LCD died
yesterday... guess a bad wire touched another one or something... *sniff*).

Anyhow, while reading this, I was wondering: how do I directly write the
pins using NetBSD *and* FreeBSD? I don't care about Linux, I never liked
that.  FreeBSD and NetBSD for me!

Thanks!
--Rink


> Hi !
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
> > Interesting ideas, I've got half a dozen LP11 interfaces (I think that
is
> > the version M7897?) that are just sitting here wasted.
>
> I love this printer port on every platform for digital I/O. A Lantronix
> Printserver controls my coffee machine (alpha stadium :-), i wrote a
little
> program for my notebook (FreeBSD) to program serial EEPROMs for SGI
machines,
> if they lost the ethernet address, i have a little 8031-computer, which
gets
> the software through some shift registers connected to a standard parallel
> port, you can at least OUTPUT anything you want through these ports. And
if you
> really just want to output, you have to connect pin 1 and 10 of a standard
> parallel port, maybe some other pins to avoid PAPER_EMPTY signals or so,
and
> then you can just output your bitmasks as byte to /dev/lpt0, it just
appears
> on the connector as a nice 8 bit binary signal to control some drivers to
> switch some relays, and there you can connect 8 machines in your kitchen
:-)
>
> ...Michael
>
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> void windows() { while(status == SYS_RUNNING) { sleep(rand());
bluescreen(); }}
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